Research Catalog

Title

Learning in likely places : varieties of apprenticeship in Japan / edited by John Singleton.

Publication

Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.

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Details

Additional Authors

Singleton, John, 1930-2019.

Description

xvi, 376 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Learning in doing

Subjects

• Apprentices > Japan > Case studies
• Educational anthropology > Japan > Case studies
• Transfer of training > Japan > Case studies
• Experiential learning > Japan > Case studies

Note

• Based on a workshop held in Pittsburgh, April 22-25, 1993.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-360) and index.

Contents

Situated learning in Japan: Our educational analysis / John Singleton. -- Pt. I. Actors, artists, and calligraphers: learning in the traditional arts. ; Transmitting tradition by the rules: an anthropological interpretation of the iemoto system / Robert J. Smith. ; The search for mastery never ceases: Zeami's classic treatises on transmitting the traditions of the no theatre / J.Thomas Rimer. ; Education in the Kano school in nineteenth-century Japan : questions about the copybook method / Brenda G. Jordan . ; Seven characteristics of a traditional Japanese approach to learning / Gary DeCoker. ; Why was everyone laughing at me? Roles of passage for the kyogen child / Jonah Salz. -- Pt. II. Potters, weavers, mechanics, doctors, and violinists: Learning in artisanal apprenticeship. ; Learning to be an apprentice / Bill Haase. ; Craft and art education in Mashiko pottery workshops / John Singleton. ; Craft and regulatory learning in a neighborhood garage / Kathryn Ellen Madono. ; Developing character in music teachers: A Suzuki approach / Sarah Hersh, Lois Peak. ; Weaving the future from the heart of tradition: Learning in leisure activities / Millie Creighton. -- Pt. III. Work and community socialization: Diversity in learning arrangements. ; Moneyed knowledge: How women become commercial shellfish divers / Jacquetta F. Hill, David W. Plath. ; The self-taught bureaucrat: Takahashi Korekiyo and economic policy during the Great Depression / Richard J. Smethurst. ; Learning at the public bathhouse / Scott Clark. ; Growing up through matsuri: Children's establishment of self and community identities in festival participation / Saburo Morita. -- Pt. IV. Appropriations of cultural practice. Learning to swing: Oh Sadaharu and the pedagogy and practice of Japanese baseball / William W. Kelly. ; Good old boy into alcoholic: Danshukai and learning a new drinking role in Japan / Stephen R. Smith. ; Did an ox wander by here recently? Learning Americanized Zen / Maureen W. McClure. ; Learning to be learners: Americans working for a Japanese boss / Jill Kleinberg. ; Calluses: When culture gets under your skin / David W. Plath

Call Number

JFE 99-2369

ISBN

0521480124 (hc)

LCCN

97025904

OCLC

37141288

Title

Learning in likely places : varieties of apprenticeship in Japan / edited by John Singleton.

Imprint

Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Series

Learning in doing

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-360) and index.

Added Author

Singleton, John, 1930-2019.

Research Call Number

JFE 99-2369